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Umbrella Drones
Mount an umbrella to a drone and there you go, you have a flying umbrella. When [Alan Kwan] tried to do just that he found it wasn’t quite so simple. The result, once he’d worked it out though, is...
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We probably just heard a message from aliens, scientists say
Scientists have heard hugely unusual messages from deep in space that they think are coming from aliens. A new analysis of strange modulations in a tiny set of stars appears to indicate that it could...
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Should You Outsource Manufacturing? A Handy Guide
A lot of people assume that the product development cycle involves R&D, outsourcing to a Chinese manufacturer, and then selling the finished product. It’s almost ingrained in our heads that once a...
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Root
Cambridge, MA Robots Project We Love Root is more than just a robot that drives on walls. It turns paper or whiteboards into an intuitive and interactive coding experience. Root is more than just a...
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Welcome to Initialized Capital. We’re proud to announce we're investing out of a new $115M early stage seed VC fund. We’re founders who are engineers, designers, and product people. We’ve built...
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Social Media’s Dial-Up Ancestor: The Bulletin Board System
For millions of people around the globe, the Internet is a simple fact of life. We take for granted the invisible network that enables us to communicate, navigate, investigate, flirt, shop, and play....
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You Can't Stop Robots With Furniture Barricades Anymore
It used to be that even sophisticated mobile robots could be easily defeated by using (say) a table to block its way. The robot would sense the table, categorize it as an obstacle, try to plan a path...
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Cypher: The Deep-Learning Software That Will Help Siri, Alexa, and Cortana...
When John Walker founded Cypher four years ago, he had a simple premise: No one wants to waste time on a noisy phone call. So he built software for smartphones, incorporating a deep neural network,...
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Wikipedia is the #5 site on the web and serves 500 million different people every month – with billions of page views. Wikipedia is something special. It is like a library or a public park. It is like...
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Alumni & Internships
The mission of the FIRST Alumni Programs is to continue to support and inspire the young adults who have participated in any of the FIRST progression of programs on their paths to becoming...
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Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data
In the 1800s it was the Luddites smashing weaving machines. These days retail staff worry about automatic checkouts. Sooner or later taxi drivers will be fretting over self-driving cars. The battle...
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A robot cooked a crab bisque for us, and it was spectacular
Although I’ve never met him, and he has never personally cooked for me, I know from first-hand experience that crab bisque made by BBC MasterChef winner Tim Anderson tastes brilliant. He should be...
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The Cure for Cancer Is Data—Mountains of Data
A few years ago Eric Schadt met a woman who had cancer. It was an aggressive form of colon cancer that had come on quickly and metastasized to her liver. She was a young war widow from Mississippi, the...
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The Power of the Cloud for Life Science R&D
Opinion Xconomy Boston — “In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it’s the fast fish which eats the slow fish…” — Klaus Schwab, Founder/Executive Chairman, World Economic...
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Cancer Moonshot Report Showcases Precision Medicine Progress
The Cancer Moonshot has made significant progress since its January launch, bringing together public and private precision medicine organizations in one of the largest concerted efforts to tackle the...
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Would you bully a driverless car or show it respect?
Say you're driving down a two-way street and there's a lorry unloading a delivery in the opposite lane. The oncoming traffic needs to pull out into your lane to overtake. What do you do? Many of us...
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Can DNA Hard Drives Solve Our Looming Data Storage Crisis?
The idea of storing digital data in DNA seems like science fiction. At first glance, it might not seem obvious that a molecule can store data. The term “data storage” conjures up images of physical...
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Artificial intelligence 'judge' developed by UCL computer scientists
Artificial intelligence software that can find patterns in highly complex decisions is being used to predict our taste in films, TV shows and music with ever-increasing accuracy. And now, after a...
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WTF is machine learning?
While the number of headlines about machine learning might lead one to think that we just discovered something profoundly new, the reality is that the technology is nearly as old as computing. It’s no...
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The Pentagon’s ‘Terminator Conundrum’: Robots That Could Kill on Their Own
Those advantages have now evaporated, and of all the new technologies that have emerged in recent decades, such as genomics or miniaturization, “the one thing that has the widest application to the...
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